Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

SR No.: 001615
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 686
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Canon
File Size: 12 MB

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SŪTRA
[Ch. VII to truth (samyag-darśana), chastity (brahmacarya), self-control (samyama), stoppage of influx of karma (samvara) and five kinds of knowledge by some without listening to it and its causes, and by some, having attended to it, as also the non-attainment of it by some, even having listened to it, etc.
Thus it is explained that some person attains the religion, experiences pure enlightenment (bohi), undertakes the state of houselessness in pure chastity, controls his senses, stops the influx of karma and attains five kinds of knowledge (perceptual upto omniscience), without listening to the religion explained by a Kevali or a Kevali-Sravaka or a Kevali-Sravika or Kevali Upasaka or a Kevali-Upasikā or a Tadpaksika-Srāvaka (svayam-buddha) upto or a Tadpakṣika-Upāsika (svayam buddhikā), then he is an Airutva Kevali; while someone does not attain it nor experiences enlightenment, etc., upto the five kinds of knowledge without attending to the religion explained by a Kevali but attains the religion after hearing to it as explained by a Kevali, then he is a Śrutva Kevali. Because he, the partial annihilation and suppression (sayopasama) of whose Jhānāvaraniya (knowledge obscuring), Darsanavaraṇīya (intuitionobscuring), Caritrāvaraṇīya (conduct obscuring) and yatanavaraṇīya (exertion-obscuring), Adhyavasanavaraṇīya karmas (tenor of mind) upto those of five kinds of knowledge have not taken place (krtabhavati), does not attain the Kevaliprajnapta-Dharma, etc. But he, the partial annihilation of whose Jänāvaraṇīya karma, etc., have occurred, attains the same even without listening to it.1
From the same points of view it is explained that some person attains the Kevaliprajnapta-Dharma, Samyag-Darsana (right attitude), Brahmacarya (chastity), Samyama (self-control), etc., upto five kinds of knowledge by listening to religious teachings of a Kevali upto Tadpākṣika-Upāsikā; while someone does not attain them even by attending to the religion explained by a Kevali and others.
1 BhS, 9, 31, 366,
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